CIRCUMSTANCES OF LOSSOn the night of 9 October 1942, the First Battalion, 2nd Marines set out from their camp on Tulagi to make a raid on Aola, Guadalcanal. Over 400 men crowded into a handful of Higgins boats, which would be towed across Sealark Channel under cover of darkness.

Halfway across the channel, the boat carrying the 2nd Platoon of B/1/2 was ripped in half, dumping the startled men into the water. Weighed down by their gear, many never had a chance. Fourteen Marines – including Corporal John Strickland – and three of the boat crew were drowned, their bodies lost at sea.

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Thanks for the information. I am the only child of J.M Strickland, and a proud son. I was nine months old when my Dad died. My mother was Bernice Lee Green Strickland of Wakulla county Florida. My name is John Preston Strickland of Crawfordville, Fl. My dad did not live in Tallahassee, Fl. He lived in rural Wakulla County, Fl.